This past few weeks we have been teaching the grade 10 students at our school about failure, and why failure is a good thing. Using famous examples we are trying to demonstrate to the students why failure can […]

There is a story from the early days of the space era about how the US and Russia independently tackled the problems of writing in space. The story goes that the Americans realised that a ball point pen was not […]

Thats a point i hadn’t even considered. I trained as recently at 2010 and we did nearly nothing on ed tech. But then again I guess you train people to work in the general work places, which for my school consisted […]

It is the end of the semester. I still have 44 projects to grade, four class sets of tests to write and grade, 80 reports to write (and a report generator to modify!), two COETAIL blog posts (and reading other […]

Its sometimes hard to imagine education looking any different in 5, 10 or 15 years from now. I think its because education now looks very similar to how it looked when I was in school… which was about 15 […]

I loved Mavis Beacon! That was awesome, except I was always terrible at it. I type at 58 wpm but I still cant properly touch type 🙂 The Oregon Trail was not a game I played, however I have heard of it. I believe […]

I am a gamer, and I have been since I was able to use my parents’ BBC Microcomputer. I mostly played a game called Repton. Unlike video games nowadays, produced by teams of (sometimes) hundreds of software […]

Around the world education lives in the past. Sure, there are pockets of the present emanating out of a few schools, but by and large education worldwide is being disseminated to students in much the same way it […]

Both of your comments are interesting, Andy makes the point that young teachers are more confident with tech but less good at using it, and Cary makes the point that our students are actually only confident enough […]

When we imagine technology, we would often think of computers. But technology does not only refer to digital computers. Whilst how we understand the word does normally refer to computers, that’s only because most […]

Coming to the end of the topic on Visual Literacy I was struck by several things. Firstly, how I never considered visual literacy before, yet I have been utilizing it for years. I guess it was more the phrase that […]

I love data. I love stats. Last week we had parent conferences. In our school this is four hours on Thursday evening and then a full morning (8am-1pm) on the Friday. In order to keep track of who comes to parent […]

Stories are an age old method of communicating to someone the events of either a fictional or real thing that happened. Whether it is the story of Harry Potter and his [SPOILER ALERT] defeat of the dark wizard […]

This week our school had its Group 4 project. This is a component of the IB Science courses in which students are required to plan, conduct and present on a topic they choose as a multidisciplinary group. This […]